CVE-2012-2124

2013-01-1800:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.115

Percentile

95.3%

JSON

functions/imap_general.php in SquirrelMail, as used in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5, does not properly handle 8-bit characters in
passwords, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk
consumption) by making many IMAP login attempts with different usernames,
leading to the creation of many preference files. NOTE: this issue exists
because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-2813.